
README for ADW: *Presidents, Policy Compromise and Legislative Success*, JOP
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These files will give you everything you need to a) replicate the estimation of presidential positions in the paper and b) perform the subsequent empirical analysis 

There are three main items to this replication package. 



1. The Speeches
All of the presidential speeches (UTF-8) can be found on the dataverse.

If you use these speeches in your research, please cite:

Arnold, Christian, Doyle, David and Wiesehomeier, Nina. 2016. Presidents, Policy Compromise and Legislative Success. Journal of Politics. vol. forthcoming. 



2. The Code for Presidential Positions

This is run in R.

The file of reference is ADW_positions_master.r which contains all necessary documentation. Watch out for runtime, though. Convergence can -- depending on your machine -- take more than 2 weeks.

IMPORTANT. By default, the code only runs 200 testdraws on 3 parallelised testchains. This will mean a quicker implementation, but this will not return our results. You will need to consult the file for further information on our exact implementation.

The related code has also been uploaded to the dataverse. IMPORTANT. You will need the complete folder structure of this replication repository to generate intermediate and final data as well as figures.




3. Presidential Positions and Empirical Analysis 

For this you will need Stata 13 or higher.

This has two related files. The first: ADW_JOP_Replication_Data.dta

This contains the presidential positions generated by the authors (adapt, if you want to run with your own estimates) - positionbz - and all related covariates necessary for the empirical models in Tables 2 and 3 and Figures 2 and 3. 

The second file is: JOP_Replication.do 
This file will enable you to replicate all of the empirical analyses in Tables 2 and 3 and Figures 2 and 3 and also the appendix. 


